Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2010 post is kept below.
How do you can a sandwich?
The Candwich was dreamed up by American inventor Mike Ryan, and his company MK1 Foods still runs the Candwich website. The big reveal is that it isn’t a finished sandwich floating in a can. It’s a kit: a sealed bread roll plus separate packets of peanut butter and jelly, with a little oxygen-absorbing sachet. The company says it keeps for up to 12 months at room temperature, using controlled acidity and moisture.
The peanut-butter-and-jelly versions became the face of the brand. Reviewers who cracked one open described a dense, slightly dry roll and a perfectly okay filling. That’s not a gourmet picnic, but it’s not a disaster either.
Shelf-stable bread is the same basic idea behind long-life field rations, so the Candwich is basically a hiking meal for lunchboxes.
More canned curiosities: canned cheeseburger and canned silkworm pupae.
From the 2010 original
Never again face the trouble of making sandwiches for a picnic yourself! A new revolutionary product called Candwich offers you the novelty of buying ready made sandwiches in a can. The available flavours include such delicacies as strawberry jelly with peanut butter, grape jelly with peanut butter, and of course the most tempting option: BBQ chicken!
What will they come up next with, I wonder?
